What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017
2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread can be found here;
Due to the use of different bands a bit from here to their, but all with good and pleasant music....
Always great, but more chaotic as they famous album....
On CD:-
Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams - Third Plane
On CD:-
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
Bert Schurink posted:Always great, but more chaotic as they famous album....
I've owned this album since the '80's, on LP. I agree, it is chaotic, but becomes more rewarding after extended listening.
Very nice....., put these recordings on my wanted list...
On mid 1980s Dutch vinyl. the sun's out, and even South London's looking beautiful...
someone posted this one a few weeks ago...thanks for the suggestion. Great album. Also found this article...good read!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...tml?mcubz=1&_r=0
On Classic Records 200g vinyl from 1997 - the Time Lord sounding absolutely sensational:
Jimmy Smith - Damn!
An excellent album by Jimmy Smith, recorded in 1995. It's a mix between hard bop and funk oriented jazz.
From Allmusic.com:
Damn! marked Jimmy Smith's return to the Verve label after an absence of 20-plus years (he originally recorded for the label from 1963 to 1972), and paired with a group of young and sympathetic jazz players that includes Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton on trumpet and Ron Blake and Mark Tuner on sax, he sounds invigorated here, striding across the Hammond B-3 keys with definite energy. The whole album, start to finish, works a wonderful groove, but versions here of James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man," and Charlie Parker's "Scrapple from the Apple" are particularly strong. Smith was arguably at his best in stripped-down trios, and his work for Blue Note between 1956 and 1960 will always be the quality reference point for his extensive canon, but Damn! is right up there with his best work, full of a joyous energy, and it sparked a resurgence of sorts for Smith.
Sound not spectacular - but music of course very interesting..
Grant Green - Street of dreams.
Grant Green with Larry Young is always a good combination. This album has a more laid back style, but they are not playing ballads.
Thanks for the recommendation on this one, it's a fine album...
A + 3 | WAV
(1993)
Also known as The Wedding Album.
Out-there Joni, on early 1980s UK vinyl. The twee witterings of Blue it is not, and is all the better for it:
My first Cream album, hence I've always had a soft spot for it. Indeed Cream and the Beatles were probably the bands that really sparked my interest in music as a young teenager. I think my first two purchases were the 45 rpm singles of Twist & Shout and Sunshine of Your Love, which I initially had to play on mum & dad's stereo-gramme.
Pollini's 1985 recording of the sonatas is controversial - well, Pollini in Chopin has always been controversial - but as so often, I'm just bowled over by his uncanny ability to take hold and never let go, suggesting lots of emotion below a surface layer that appears at first glance a more mechanical than musical way with the music. His dispassionate funeral march (with, for him unusual, dips into ppp) may be the most passionate on record. Sound is middle-of-the-road good, the piano sounds a bit brittle but apparently that's how he likes it and that's how I heard him in Amsterdam on several occasions, too.
Cheers,
EJ
A + 3 | WAV
(1989)
Time for another burst of their stuff from a fine sounding Toshiba EMI CD rip with their best tunes to date.
Tracklist
| Planet Earth | 4:07 |
| Girls On Film | 3:30 |
| Hungry Like The Wolf | 3:25 |
| Rio | 5:38 |
| Save A Prayer | 5:33 |
| Is There Something I Should Know | 4:05 |
| Union Of The Snake | 4:20 |
| The Reflex | 4:25 |
| Wild Boys | 4:16 |
| A View To A Kill | 3:33 |
| Notorious | 3:58 |
| Skin Trade | 4:25 |
| I Don't Want Your Love | 3:47 |
| All She Wants Is | 4:36 |
The new Christian Scott, a more quiet one - beat with African origins under it and then the music on top of that, modern and not difficult as some avant-garde....
Kevin-W posted:Out-there Joni, on early 1980s UK vinyl. The twee witterings of Blue it is not, and is all the better for it:
That's an opinion to raise a few eyebrows! And the blood pressure here at Castle Vlad..........
Moving from a collaboration with Mingus, here's the man himself, on a Speakers Corner reissue from the 1990s:
Old vinyl
Why? Relaxed summery sounds...
steve
Bert Schurink posted:The new Christian Scott, a more quiet one - beat with African origins under it and then the music on top of that, modern and not difficult as some avant-garde....
Was a bit sceptical at first - but has some great modern music, will grow on my I am sure...
From one classic to another. This and Ziggy are my long-time favourite Bowie albums.
Love it